Project Based Learning

Project Based Learning

Project Based Learning

Project Based Learning – Supporting SDGs implementation

Gaia Education’s Project Based Learning is a dynamic learning approach in which stakeholders acquire appropriate skills and analytical tools while actively exploring real-life solutions to the challenges of designing sustainable settlements.

We work with traditional and indigenous communities in the Global South to improve the way they manage their environments and villages, while addressing climate change vulnerabilities. Engaged communities benefit with more stable and fertile soil, secure supply of food and clean water and enhanced livelihoods.

Developing local food economies is a key element in Gaia Education and partners’ Project Based Learning programmes. Our projects promote integrated approaches to land management for healthier soils, nutritional yields and enhanced climate resilience. Furthermore we support communities to establish social enterprises and local small businesses, aiming to preserve their unique culture, foods and ecologies and to foster greater economic vitality and diversification.

Watch how we are maximising the Edges across the world with our Project Based Learning programmes here

Participatory Learning

We stress the importance of social learning as the most important process for sustainable development, where knowledge is produced by all actors and is constantly evolving. Our learning approaches ensure that project-based interventions involve full participation of local organisations while providing an empowering experience for all.

Technical support

Technical support is given by our global network of ecovillage educators, known as the GEESE, and constituted by experts from pioneering research and development centres for carbon-constrained lifestyles. Core technical support offered by the GEESE include:

participatory mapping of community forests, land and resource use areas

community capacity building and institutional development

engaging government, institutional stakeholders and policies

participatory village scenario planning and the design of project activities

baseline assessments of community livelihoods, governance and resource use.

Dissemination support

We take pride in being active in sharing lessons learned from project-based activities with several networks of movements for social transformation – amongst them Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Transition Network (TN), and the European Network for Local, Community-based Action on Climate Change (ECOLISE).